PEPP –
PLATFORM OF EXPERIENCES WITH
POWER PLANTS
VGB PowerTech e.V., the Technical Association for heat
and power generation in Europe, since its foundation
according to its statutes is organizing the exchange of
experiences in the energy industry, e.g. to maintain and
to improve the operational safety and the environmental
protection. So far this exchange of experience has been
realized by means of committee meetings and their
minutes, guidelines and publications, training and re-
search. The exchange should be expanded in form of a
database for the experiences in power plants with fossil
and renewable energy sources – the database „Platform
of Experiences with Power Plants“, briefly PEPP.
About us
Info
VGB PowerTech e.V. bundles and represents the inter-ests of the heat and power generators as an inde-pendent association on national and European level (in cooperation with EURELECTRIC); it
� organizes the exchange of experience
� is drafting technical concepts with the goal to maintain the safety, the environmental sustainability and the operating efficiency of the power and heat generation
� collects and make use of proceedings, reports and experiences in the area of planning, construction and operation of power plants and advices in cases of damages and faults
� supports and coordinates projects in research, de-velopment and demonstration of new generation technologies
� cooperates with organizations, which are compil-ing technical standards, guidelines (VGB-standards) and rules for equipment used in power and heat generation
� supports the training and continuing education of personnel
Contact
Contact partner:
Andreas Böser
Phone: +49 201 8128 247
E-Mail: [email protected]
Internet: www.vgb.org
VGB PowerTech e.V. Deilbachtal 173
45257 Essen/Germany
PEPP-
Database
T H E I D E A
Development of a central exchange platform
The data base PEPP should facilitate the proved ex-
change of experience in the VGB committees, broad-
ening and documenting it, so that the contributing
enterprises:
� Exchange experience faster,
� Search systematic at any time and
� Learn in a more structured way from each other
The experience incidents („cases“) put in PEPP are
meeting the aspiration to ensure benefit not only for the
own company but also for other VGB-members.
T H E B E N E F I T
is that
� a specific search for professional topics in the en-
ergy sector and a finding of solutions is easier than
before, if necessary supported by subsequent con-
tacting,
� all VGB-members is offered a central platform for
the exchange of experience,
� Experts could focus on “Cases” (experience inci-
dents), whose “lessons learnt” (experience core)
are of benefit to the VGB-members,
� The legal framework like competition law, data
protection and other legal or insurance- require-
ments to be respected.
T H E S T R U C T U R E
� A case is an abstract (max. 3 core issues) of an
incident or a process. The full version can be at-
tached.
� Each case is allocated to different categories
(phase, RDS-PP keys, and impact). Based on these
categories a searching engine put together an ef-
fective hit list.
� A case can be made anonymous in certain issues,
that means in this case not all information to the
case are displayed
� A user can open and print published cases in the
hit list and in the individual view
W H O C A N C O N T R I B U T E
The PEPP data base is available free of charge to all
ordinary VGB members.
VGB members who are interested to participate to
PEPP should contact:
Andreas Böser
Phone: +49 201 8128-247
Email: [email protected]
D E S C R I P T I O N O F P R O C E S S
The working process is performed in several defined
steps, as the following diagram case creation shows.
The author or “Unternehmensredakteur (UR) (enterprise
editor) creates the case reflecting on the core points:
� What has happened?
� Why does it happen?
� What can be improved in the future?
The enterprise editor „Unternehmensredakteur“checks
the case on compliance with the corporate interests
and forwards it to the VGB-editor “VGB-Redakteur
(VR)”. In case of non-compliance he rejects the case to
the author.
The VGB-editor checks the case on compliance with
the basic rules and records it in the database or rejects
the case back to the corporate editor.